Thank goodness this registered sex offender Edward R. Walsh of 40 Camelia Drive, Ormond By The Sea was busted for sexually abusing this teen. This park is closed after sundown and police were patrolling the area. Dont know if this man is an Ormond Beach AA or NA member, but it is typical for the courts to mandate sexual offenders that they feel drugs or alcohol is also a contributing factor to their crimes.Parks can be a magnet for them because of children being at the playgrounds and also to use bathrooms or to park their cars to perform their sex crimes. Daytona Beach recently passed laws banning sexual offenders/predators in parks that are required to register as such. Holly Hill would be wise to pass similiar laws and do more patrolling in the parks.This shows more reason to not mix minors with sex offenders giving them access to prey on them.Kinda a no-brainer,but the practice continues in AA/NA on a daily basis.
A teenage boy who was found inside the car of a registered sex offender early Thursday morning told police he met the man through a dating app on his iPhone, Ormond Beach police said.
When police caught up to 54-year-old suspect Edward Walsh inside the playground area of Breakaway Trails subdivision just after 1 a.m., he told officers he knew the youngster was only 15, but agreed to meet with the boy in order to explain to him “how dangerous it is to do this sort of thing,” an arrest report shows.
The teen told Walsh that he was 16, but then later admitted he is 15, police said. He also told officers he and Walsh had been talking for the last three days.
Walsh is a registered sex offender convicted of possession of a photograph showing a sexual performance by a child, state records show. The offense occurred in Miami-Dade County in 2005. Walsh, who lives on Camellia Drive in Ormond Beach, has no criminal record in Volusia County other than the Thursday arrest, records show.
Ormond Beach police Officer Michael Andrew Bakaysa said in an arrest affidavit that he was patrolling in the Breakaway Trails subdivision when he drove to a playground on River Chase Way where there had been complaints of possible drug and sexual activity.
